Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Prize Winner Of Defiance Ohio

By: Terry Ryan

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated ideas about women, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for... Read more

Restless Souls

By: Alisa Statman & Brie Tate

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Gabra Zackman, Therese Plummer & Ro...

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murders of the beautiful and talented actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child and four others that same night at the hands of the notorious “Manson family” rocked the nation. As one of the most horrific crimes in modern history, these atrocities, the trial and the subsequent conviction of Charles Manson and his followers caused a... Read more

The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Meeting... Read more

The Noonday Demon

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more

Eisenhower in War and Peace

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 28 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the best-seller FDR, Jean Edward Smith is a master of the presidential biography. Setting his sights on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smith delivers a rich account of Eisenhower's life using previously untapped primary sources. From the military service in WWII that launched his career to the shrewd political decisions that kept America out of... Read more

Four Feet Tall & Rising

By: S. J. Hodges & Shorty Rossi

Narrated by: Shorty Rossi

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Luigi Francis "Shorty" Rossi, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Boss,
may stand only four feet tall, but that hasn't stopped him from living
large, becoming a successful businessman and an outspoken advocate for
pit bulls, the most misunderstood dog breed in the world.

A
third-generation dwarf, ex-gang member,... Read more

Richard Norton Smith: Lincoln's Influence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

On this Presidents' Day, Hari Sreenivasan and historian Richard Norton Smith discuss President Lincoln's influence on American politics and popular culture as they tour the Ford's Theatre's new Center for Education and Leadership dedicated to the president. Read more

The History of Early Flight

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the Wright Brothers as the tell their story about flight Read more

William the Conqueror (Special Edition)

By: Jacob Abbott

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents William the Conqueror written by Jacob Abbott. Learn the way he lived and stories from his life. Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Sharon Nitchell

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents the classic The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and read by Sharon Nitchell. Read more

World's Greatest Composers (Special Edition)

By: Smith Show Media Group

Narrated by: Smith Show Media Group

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents World's Greatest Composers. Learn how some of the greatest composers became famous. Read more

The Coalwood Way

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer Hickam is the #1 New York Times best-selling author whose life inspired the critically acclaimed film October Sky. In The Coalwood Way he returns to his childhood home of Coalwood, West Virginia for an inspiring memoir about growing up in a town that's slowly fading away. Homer and his close buddies, who call themselves the Rocket Boys,... Read more

Golden Bones

By: Sichan Siv

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and ’70s, the neighboring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975—the same year that the U.S. presence in Vietnam ended—and began a vicious genocide to return Cambodia to an agrarian... Read more

That Woman

By: Anne Sebba

Narrated by: Samantha Bond

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King's Speech.

This is the story of the American divorcee notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his... Read more

Sipping From the Nile

By: Jean Naggar

Narrated by: Jean Naggar

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this coming-of-age memoir about a privileged, protected childhood in the exotic milieu of 1950’s Egypt, author Jean Naggar describes a magical time that seemed as if it would never end. But Egypt’s nationalizing of the Suez Canal would set in motion events that would change her life forever.An enchanted existence suddenly ended by... Read more

Mob Daughter

By: Karen Gravano & Lisa Pulitzer

Narrated by: Karen Gravano

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal.

Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family... Read more

Basketball Junkie

By: Chris Herren & Bill Reynolds

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts,
junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on
his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created
their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best
hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories.... Read more

Paris in the Fifties

By: Stanley Karnow

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America’s finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow... Read more

Expecting Adam

By: Martha Beck

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." "He" is Adam, a three-year-old who has never spoken an intelligible word. And the message is intended for Martha Beck, Adam's... Read more

Riding the Bus with My Sister

By: Rachel Simon

Narrated by: Rachel Simon

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved by their story. Now, in an updated edition with fifty pages of new content, Rachel Simon reflects on changes in her life, Beth's life, and the lives of individuals with intellectual and... Read more

Once Upon a Secret

By: Mimi Alford

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a... Read more

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the... Read more

The Money Saving Mom's Budget

By: Crystal Paine

Narrated by: Crystal Paine

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Nielsen's Top 50 Power Moms comes advice you can take to the bank—literally! Crystal Paine, who has helped busy women everywhere take control of their finances, presents her most effective strategies designed for families of all sizes and income levels. With hundreds of inspiring “why didn’t I think of that?” tips, plus worksheets,... Read more

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Paul Garcia

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read more